Dr Yen Chin Koay

Yen Chin Koay is a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney. In 2013, Dr. Koay was awarded the Prime Minister's Australia Endeavour Postgraduate Award to pursue her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry at UNSW Australia, which she completed in 2017. Following her Ph.D.,  she joined the Heart Research Institute as a postdoctoral fellow through the Endeavour Australia Internship Programme before transitioning to her current position at the University of Sydney. Her research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms of structural, functional and metabolic changes in cardiac hypertrophy and failure.